{"slug": "tournai", "label": "Tournai", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournai", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173219", "qid": "Q173219", "description": "city in Wallonia, Belgium", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [451, 1709], "span_label": ["451 CE", "1709 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "belgium", "label": "Belgium", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "reims", "label": "Reims", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "salian-franks", "label": "Salian Franks", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "franks", "label": "Franks", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "neustria", "label": "Neustria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "poitiers", "label": "Poitiers", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chilperic-i", "label": "Chilperic I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "assassination", "label": "Assassination", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cologne", "label": "Cologne", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mainz", "label": "Mainz", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "strasbourg", "label": "Strasbourg", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 451, "year_label": "451 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 7", "text": "April 7 – Attila's forces invade Gaul and sack Metz. The major cities of Strasbourg, Worms, Mainz, Trier, Cologne, Reims, Tournai, Cambrai, Amiens and Beauvais are destroyed by the Huns.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361438720#Europe", "title": "451", "revid": 1361438720, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 458, "year_label": "458 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Childeric I succeeds his father Merovech as king of the Salian Franks. He establishes his capital at Tournai (modern Belgium) and becomes a foederatus (pl. foederati) of the Western Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364748114#Europe", "title": "458", "revid": 1364748114, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 481, "year_label": "481 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Childeric I dies at Tournai after a 24-year reign. He is succeeded by his 15-year-old son Clovis, who becomes ruler of the Salian Franks in the province Gallia Belgica (modern Belgium) until his death in 511.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789382#Europe", "title": "481", "revid": 1340789382, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 575, "year_label": "575 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Franks under Sigibert I pursue his half brother Chilperic I, and conquer the cities Poitiers and Tournai. While he is proclaimed new king of Neustria by the nobles, Sigibert is assassinated at Vitry-en-Artois (Northern Gaul) by hirelings of Fredegund.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367658531#Europe", "title": "575", "revid": 1367658531, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 954, "year_label": "954 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Hungarians plunder the regions of Hesbaye and Carbonaria (modern Belgium). They plunder and burn the monastery of Saint Lambert from Hainaut, the monastery of Moorsel, sack the cities of Gembloux and Tournai.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360671354#Europe", "title": "954", "revid": 1360671354, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1214, "year_label": "1214 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June", "text": "June – Otto IV arrives in Flanders with a small army; four German nobles have joined him, but he is soon reinforced by troops of Renaud I, duke of Boulogne, Ferdinand, (jure uxoris) count of Flanders and the mercenaries under William Longespée. On July 26, Philip II arrives at the Flemish town of Tournai with his army (some 7,000 men), while the allied forces encamp 12 kilometers south at the Castle of Mortagne (France).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1329586748#Europe", "title": "1214", "revid": 1329586748, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1228, "year_label": "1228 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The city of Tournai emits its first recorded life annuity, thus confirming a trend of consolidation of public debts started ten years earlier, in Reims.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360747311#Markets", "title": "1228", "revid": 1360747311, "section": "Events › By topic › Markets"}}, {"year": 1667, "year_label": "1667 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 26", "text": "June 26 – Louis XIV of France conquers Tournai.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365989201#April–June", "title": "1667", "revid": 1365989201, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1709, "year_label": "1709 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 30", "text": "July 30 – War of the Spanish Succession: Tournai is captured by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361817608#July–December", "title": "1709", "revid": 1361817608, "section": "Events › July–December"}}]}